Yeah, but it's not actually a note - it's just a rhythmic pulsation of the vocal chords - there's a difference. The interesting thing is how do they define a note? Do you have to maintain the same frequency of vocal chord clicks (because that's all that's going on) for 10 seconds or what? Is there a mean note, a required standard deviation? And you don't need to be a singer to do it - a yoga exponent could do it, for example. If you click your vocal chords once every minute precisely, what happens then? It's damn stupid, if you ask me. ---------- Kinda hot in these rhinos!
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But 0.393 Hertz? I don't think so. A Hertz is a cycle per second. 0.393 is one cycle every 2.5 seconds. Not only is this not audible I don't think it is humanly possible. Can you provide the source of that info?
A "sub Contra Bass" A, denoted something like "Aiii" is 13.75 Hz and as far as I know these guys aren't singing THAT low. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note
For those of you who love bassists this IMHO is one of the finest ever. A bassist with The Red Army Choir singing Stenka Razin a Russian folk tune. I discovered the tune hunting for stuff to play on a Gm Harmonic Minor - It goes great on the Harmonic Minor. The tune has an English version called Carnival is over. Enjoy:-
This is Albert Kuvezin. The vocal technique he is using here employs both the vocal cords and the vestibular folds, AKA "false vocal cords" of the larynx. If you can get them going, they vibrate at 1/2 the frequency of the vocal cords. Perhaps not as low as Mr. Menees, but a bit more musical, I think.
